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The Oklahoma City Thunder née Seattle Supersonics organization
has had five Hall of Fame members on their rosters in the last
five decades. They were Lenny Wilkens, Dennis Johnson, David
Thompson, Gary Payton and Patrick Ewing. How many Hall of
Fame inductees have they actually drafted?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5

Spoiler:

A. 1
B. 2C. 3
D. 4
E. 5

Two of the HoFers on their rosters were drafted by the Sonics:
Dennis Johnson in 1976 and Gary Payton in 1990.

They also selected Scottie Pippen at #5 in the 1987 draft but
traded him that night to the Bulls for Olden Polynice - who
was not elected to the Hall of Fame.

Re: 12/8/2013 Game Thread #21: Pacers Vs. Thunder

"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."

Re: 12/8/2013 Game Thread #21: Pacers Vs. Thunder

Re: 12/8/2013 Game Thread #21: Pacers Vs. Thunder

Denari said the TV truck got caught in a traffic jam and couldn't make it to OKC. They found an old truck in OKC that'll send an SD feed to Houston that'll be upconverted to HD. So we'll see how this broadcast goes.

Re: 12/8/2013 Game Thread #21: Pacers Vs. Thunder

Denari said the TV truck got caught in a traffic jam and couldn't make it to OKC. They found an old truck in OKC that'll send an SD feed to Houston that'll be upconverted to HD. So we'll see how this broadcast goes.

Uh oh... I'm at a party tonight and had to record the game to watch later... Hope it works out.

Re: 12/8/2013 Game Thread #21: Pacers Vs. Thunder

Denari said the TV truck got caught in a traffic jam and couldn't make it to OKC. They found an old truck in OKC that'll send an SD feed to Houston that'll be upconverted to HD. So we'll see how this broadcast goes.

Oh boy.

"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.

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Re: 12/8/2013 Game Thread #21: Pacers Vs. Thunder

Tandem VS Team

Paul George & Kevin Durant!!!!
Ok we're all salivating for this.
Paul will certainly carry almost all of the defensive burden against the splendid KD. The reverse however will not likely be true.
The greatest challenge for Paul will be to play his usual brand of stellar D WITHOUT foul trouble. Kevin gets exactly twice the foul shots per game as PG. In fact it is the most significant difference statistically between them. Kevin's going to get some home cookin' We need Paul on the floor.

Po' George Hill against Russell the blur.
Another big night for our home town kid. With DRose down there's really no one else with the slash and burn athleticism of RW. We need a lot from Hill tonight. He must be our point man to knock the shine off one of the worlds best transition games. In the half court he must just TRY his best to stay in front of his guy long enough, and consistently enough, to keep our bigs out of foul trouble.
We need him to keep a steady pace. The Pacer's pace. We should look to win in the nineties. OKC will give us some shots. They wanna run and play something almost like street ball. We do not want that. A loose couple of quarters followed by one of our droughts and we're done. Irritate them with a slower pace. A grinding game will kill the fun in it for them and they'll lose focus.

Battle of the BAMF's
Statistics may show this year that we come up a little short here. Serge is quite a physical specimen. Young and strong. Taller than DWest has a plays with a chip on his shoulder. Likes to block shots. He may get a block or two on our guy but he doesn't scare me. David has a good history against OKC. I think he put like 25 a game on them last year. David's long arms and experience makes up the difference here and we can depend on him to hold up his end here.

Mount Hibbert
They start KPerkins. Formerly one of the best post defenders in the league and still very capable. His minutes are not quite those of a starter. He shares time with Steven Adams, a rookie who has been somewhat effective in limited minutes. He gives them 5 and five pretty quick. OKC will also play some small lineups. sometimes with out a center, sometimes with three guards. We should be able to find minutes for West and Scola together if we want to. They are the leagues number 1 rebounding team but there is no reason for them to punk us on the glass if we play with energy.

Other than their big three Ok likes to spread out the minutes. Ten or eleven guys will see significant time. They have some pretty good players to do it. Guards Reggie Jackson, and Jeremy Lamb both score near the double figure mark. Sefolosha starts at shooting guard for them. He's a good defender. Look for him to get a lot of time on PG. We'll also see Nick Collison, Perry Jones, Derrick Fischer, and probably even Thebeet and Ryan Gomes.

Make no mistake about it though this is essentially a two man team. Serge will contribute no doubt but this team flies on Durant and Westbrook.
Those two WILL get their points. They will shoot until they do. We must make them struggle for it. Make them take a lot of shots to do it and starve them for the ball. Slow the pace. Make it one and done for them and they will crack.
Don't foul out!!

This is the game I thought most likely we would lose. Mostly because win or lose we'd have no legs after last night in San Antonio. Funny how things worked out! We were able to rest our guys just a little. I hope it was enough. We are a better TEAM. I am not worried about these guys in a series but this game is pretty unpredictable. If we are not too wore out I see us putting together a nice little 8-10 point lead by the third quarter and then holding on. If we're gassed it could get ugly.

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Re: 12/8/2013 Game Thread #21: Pacers Vs. Thunder

Looks like FSI was able to combo with OKC's team to cover the game, I give kudos to those guys for helping out.

"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."

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Why are the two announcing groups together? This seem like its going to be weird.

I think they're separating after the commercial, they just wanted to show they were working together, I'm guessing you'd see the same camera angles and everything that the OKC game will have.

I'm not exactly sure though.

"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."